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An anti-gay ultra-Orthodox extremist suspected of stabbing revellers at Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade is to be kept in custody after appearing in court on Friday.
The suspected attacker, Yishai Schlissel, was arrested at the pride parade the...

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A Florida woman has been given two years of probation for drowning a three-week-old puppy in a Nebraska airport toilet.
Cynthia Anderson, of Edgewater, Florida, was sentenced in Hall County District Court in Grand Island.
She pleaded no contest in...

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France's top court has ruled that a law aimed at ending cockfighting is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by supporters of the tradition.
The Constitutional Council confirmed the ban on the creation of new cockfighting rings - called...

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Investigators are working to identify whether a wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island came from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Loved ones of those on board will likely have to wait at least another day for...

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The law enforcement arm of the US Fish & Wildlife Service is trying to reach the dentist who killed a protected lion while on a guided hunt in Zimbabwe.
The agency is investigating circumstances surrounding the death of a lion, named Cecil, Fish &...

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A surfer was seriously injured as he repeatedly punched a shark that mauled him off the Australian east coast, less than a week after a fatal attack.
Craig Ison, 52, had major wounds to his left leg and hand in the dawn attack at Evans Head, 340...

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The Islamic State (IS) group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the US-led bombing campaign began a year ago, American intelligence agencies have concluded.
The military campaign has prevented Iraq's collapse and put IS under increasing...

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Suspected Jewish extremists have set fire to two Palestinian homes in the West Bank, killing a child and critically injuring four people.
Israeli police said the child was a year and a half old and military spokesman Lt Col Peter Lerner called the...

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Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has defeated a bid by dissenters in his left-wing Syriza party to push for an end to bailout talks and an exit from the euro.
Syriza's governing central committee backed a proposal by Mr Tsipras to hold an...

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Malaysia is “almost certain” plane debris washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is part of a Boeing 777, its deputy transport minister said, heightening the possibility it could be wreckage from missing Flight MH370.
The object, which...

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Just when it seemed Turkey was getting serious about the fight against IS, it has turned its military focus to pounding its old foe: the Kurdish rebels.
In Turkey’s Kurdish heartland, the government’s renewed military onslaught against the rebels...

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The five countries investigating the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine a year ago are considering setting up an independent international tribunal after Russia vetoed attempts to establish a UN-backed court to prosecute suspects.
Russia...

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Eurosceptics who want Britain to quit the European Union are letting pro-EU campaigners get a head start in mobilising opinion ahead of an In/Out referendum that could take place within a year, Britain’s most prominent Eurosceptic said...

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A teenager has been convicted of planning a massacre at his former college after he amassed a fearsome arsenal of weapons.
Police found a ‘kill bag’, pipe bombs Liam Lyburd had made and a Glock semi-automatic handgun and 94 expanding bullets he...

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras challenged hard-left rebels in his Syriza movement yesterday to put their opposition to new bailout negotiations to an immediate membership ballot, as he seeks to assert his control over the ruling party.
At a...

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed and wounded six participants, two of them seriously, in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem yesterday, with police saying the suspect was jailed for a similar attack 10 years ago.
About 5,000 people...

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Some Republicans gleefully scripted Donald Trump’s political obituary in the wake of his scathing comments about Senator John McCain’s military service earlier this month, hoping that his freewheeling presidential campaign had finally...

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The Russian State was involved in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko “in one way or another”, the inquiry into the spy’s killing has heard.
Litvinenko, 43, died nearly three weeks after drinking tea laced with polonium-210 in London in November...

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A certain catchy tune will be hard to avoid tonight as the full moon sets everyone humming.
Not just any full moon, a ‘blue moon’ – the first to occur since 2012 and the last until 2018.
But anyone hoping to see the dazzling spectacle of a glowing...

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A spectacular version of the Northern Lights, but 10,000 times more powerful, lights up the skies of a ‘failed star’, astronomers have discovered.
It is the first time an aurora, caused by charged particles striking atmospheric atoms, has been...